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FREAKING RIDICULOUS EATING OUT EXAMPLE LIST

I manage this by choosing to eat lower carb and lower fat throughout the week so that I can enjoy my weekends.

I also practice intermittent fasting, which means I can eat bigger meals 🙂

Here are a ton of examples of how I eat out and how I track in MyMacros+. This is all from the past three months!

1. A New Year’s Day Party!!

A friend of mine was havin’ a lil’ get-together on New Year’s Day, so I did my best to track what I ate. BBQ sandwich, some chips, pineapple, broccoli slaw, potato/tomato thing, poppyseed bread, brownie and ice cream. I had about 300cals worth of food prior to this meal.

I participated in a second January volunteer activity, which involved making PB&J sandwiches with Community Bucket for a local Atlanta church to distribute to homeless shelters. Before makin’ the sandwiches, we got to eat some ourselves.

Went to Trivia Night with one of my BFFs. Pretty easy salad. Ordered dressing on the side. Used entries from other restaurants for my estimates. I was kinda low protein at that point so I gave about half the chicken to our bartender heheh.

Went to a Hawk’s game and had dinner (and wine) beforehand! Had about 400cals of food around noon before this. Very hard for me to pass up a good Cuban-style sandwich. I did not eat all of the fries, and I did not touch the mojo dip mostly because I wasn’t really sure wtf was in it. The sandwhich was JUST FINE without it, trust me.

Not pictured: A bite of Bacon Mac & Cheese Spring Rolls. I only had a small bite of the cookie (shared with like 6 people). You can see I was generous with the butter estimate here for my grilled cheese.

Again, about 1 cup of cooked rice per roll. Estimated about 6oz worth of alcohol for that martini.

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Granted, this is a lot easier to do in an off season because I have more calories to play around with, and I don’t have a stage date looming over me. Still, it’s not impossible to do during prep or on a cut! I hope that I can continue to be flexible when I start prep in about seven weeks. We’ll see.

You can see that I’ve managed to stay relatively lean because I don’t use these nights out as cheat meals/binges. I am slowly gaining and building muscle at about 0.5 lb a week because I am still in control of my intake.